New York – A rare 19th century 55-carat diamond has gone on temporary view at New York’s American Museum of Natural History.
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The Kimberley Diamond gets its name from the mine in South Africa where it was found sometime before 1868.
It was cut from a 490-carat crystal. It was turned into a 70-carat gem in 1921 and recut to its present form in 1958 to improve its brilliance and proportions.
The champagne-colored, emerald-cut diamond will be on display through the end of June 2014.
Curator George Harlow says the rectangular diamond is about 1.25 inches in length and virtually flawless.
It is on loan from Bruce F. Stuart Trust.
I’ll take one
Who cares? If you study the history of how diamonds became a “precious stone” you will stop caring for them. Prior to late 19th century, diamonds were not valued in Europe or America. It took heavy marketing campaign and recruiting the Royal elite to bombard Western culture to value a stone that is NOT rare and is not hard to find. There is a private global organization that holds tight control over diamond factories, supply and pricing, all artificial control. When you buy the most expensive engagement ring, it becomes a dust collector because you will never resell it at value, unlike a bar of gold or silver. Wooden engagement rings have same value on market as any $20,000 diamond once you leave the store with it.
Keep tabs on it — will be needed for “Urim V’Tumim’ when Mashiach comes this Tisha B’Av IY’H…
Oh there it is! I couldn’t find it around the house
this is tiny, compared to the legendary ‘Plotkin Diamond’, which a pretty young thing was showing off her to her friends. As they ‘oo-ed’ and ‘ahhed’, she explained that it nevertheless “comes with a curse!” “Oo, and what is the ‘curse'”, they asked her? “Mr. Plotkin”, she replied.
[If your name is Plotkin, please this is just an old joke which I hope will give someone, at least, a chuckle] [and every Jew is a bracha and full of mitzvos like a pomegranate, even the legendary husband of this wholly fictional account] [And on this Shabbos “Chazon”, as R. Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev taught, the Eibishter, Boruch Hu, shows us a ‘chazon’ of the of the 3rd Bais HaMikdosh. May we rejoice in it together with Aveinu sh’ba’shamayim very soon indeed!]
Has anyone out there seen a diamond made in a laboratory? Is it as good as the mined diamonds?
#5 , you’re the one who comes across angry, young brother.